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One day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an email landed in Karen Attiah’s inbox. It accused her of “gross misconduct.” It said her Bluesky posts harmed the paper and could endanger staff. Four hours later, The Washington Post was done with an eleven-year columnist who had no disciplinary record to speak of. Now, the debate […]

Trump’s 50% Section 338 tariffs on Canada took effect August 22. Here is what they cost American car prices, housing, gas, small businesses in Detroit and Jackson and Memphis, and the family budget.

Angie Nixon drove herself to her own campaign stops in the kind of August heat that curls the edges of campaign flyers by noon. There was no advance team and no chartered flights. Instead, just a state representative from Jacksonville in a hot pink jacket working through the sweat. She showed up at churches and […]

A supplement to Big Sarge Economy Watch — Vol. 1 Issue 7. On Friday morning, the White House announced a ninety-day tariff waiver on up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports. Election Day is seventy-four days out. Apply Roosevelt’s test and the answer arrives in about four seconds.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has passed 250 days deployed, more than 200 of them without a port call, with no return date on the books. Sailors are pulling shipmates back from the rail. A 23-year Air Force veteran on what an endless extension costs the people who absorb it.

Three ceasefires, five months, and a Congress that never took the vote — all are part of the ongoing story of the Iran War. Five months in, the score is three ceasefires and no signed deal. The first one held for days. The second one, an actual written memorandum, lasted about two weeks in practice […]